Routers are the core of network architecture, securely forwarding data packets between networks. Cisco supplies the vast majority of the industry's routers and has developed a broad product line that features routers built to provide the security, performance, and dependability characteristics demanded by companies of any size. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic failover, and backup power for enhanced availability and network uptime. These features allow businesses to establish a solid foundation for an information network that allows you to grow as you accommodate new users, establish new offices, install new services, give access to your network to clients and vendors, and build an increasingly mobile workforce.
Cisco Routers Designed for Small, Mid-size and Enterprise Businesses
Cisco's routers provide a comprehensive solution that reduces network downtime and ensures access to your most business-critical applications. Cisco's focus on integrating new infrastructure services with performance allows businesses to build WANs that are more intelligent, more robust, and more reliable. For businesses of all sizes that require quick, protected connectivity to today's key applications plus a strong basis for continuing expansion, Cisco routers offer a product line designed for secure, fast transmission of simultaneous mixed-media services. Cisco's integrated services routers incorporate security and voice services within a single routing solution that speeds application deployment and reduces maintenance expenses and complexity.
Cisco SB 100 Routers The Cisco Small Business 100 Series of routers provides an affordable Cisco router for data-only traffic in small business customers with up to five users. SB 100 options include Asymmetric DSL, ADSL, or an Ethernet WAN version with a 4-port 10/100 switch. Every SB 100 provides safe access with integrated stateful firewall and support for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based VPNs. In addition, simple configuration tool, Cisco Router and Security Device Manager, permits you to set up the SB 100 and its integrated firewall, and off-site management capabilities in Cisco IOS Software allow easy integration and centralized support.
Cisco SB 100 Secure Broadband Routers have been superseded by Cisco's 850 and 870 family of routers. Progent's network support experts can help you to maintain your existing SB 100 devices and show you how to migrate to more current routers.
Cisco 800 Series Routers with Integrated Services The Cisco 870 and Cisco 850 Access Routers are entry-level routers that provide protected, simultaneous services over fast connections in small off-site offices, teleworker, and small company sites.
Cisco 850 Series access routers are designed for small networks, ideal for up to 10 users or for teleworker environments where simply protected and economical access is required. 850 Series access routers offer protected access with firewall and IP security Virtual Private Network features for small offices, four-connection 10/100 Ethernet switch, secure WiFi option with an antenna, plus easy configuration and integration and remote administration capabilities through Web-based tools and IOS Software.
Cisco 870 Series routers are designed for small networks, well-suited for as many as 20 workers or for teleworker environments where advanced VoIP and video and resilient connectivity using backup WAN. wide area network links are needed, as well as protected connections. Cisco 870 Series access routers offer excellent speed for fast connectivity in small offices as well as enhanced security via features that include stateful Inspection Firewall, IP Security Virtual Private Networks, Triple Data Encryption Standard or AES as well as Dynamic Multipoint VPN and Tunnel-less Group Encrypted Transport, an intrusion prevention system, and virus protection using NAC and policing of secure access policies.
Cisco 870 routers also offer industry-leading quality of service (QoS), 4-connection 10/100 Ethernet switch with Virtual LAN capability, secure WLAN 802.11b/g option with multiple antennas, simple setup and integration through Web-enabled tools and remote management capabilities via Cisco IOS Software, and PoE support to work with IP phone sets or external wireless access points.
Cisco 1800 Series Integrated Services Routers The modular Cisco 1800 family of routers combine data and protection into a single robust system for fast, scalable access to mission-critical business applications. The Cisco 1800 Series architecture has been specifically developed to satisfy the needs of small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), small enterprise branch offices, and ISP-managed services environments for access to concurrent services at high-speed performance. The integrated services systems architecture of the Cisco 1800 Series routers delivers optimum versatility and investment protection.
Designed for safe data access, Cisco's 1841 router offers notable additional value relative to older generations of 1700 Series routers by bringing more than a 5x speed increase and built-in hardware encryption enabled by an optional IOS Software security image. The 1841 device dramatically improves interface card slot performance as well as density over Cisco's 1700 Series routers while maintaining compatibility with dozens of existing WAN interface cards and multiflex trunk cards (VWICs-for data only). The 1841 device offers additional improvement of Virtual Private Network speed with an available Virtual Private Network acceleration add-in; an intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall functions; support for a wide range of interface requirements, such as support for integrated switch ports; plus sufficient speed and slot capacity for future network growth and advanced applications.
2800 Integrated Services Routers Targeted at small to midsize organizations and corporate branch offices, the Cisco 2800 Series comprises several platforms: the Cisco 2801, the 2811 router, the Cisco 2821, and the 2851 router. The Cisco 2800 Series provides substantial additional value in comparison to prior generations of Cisco routers at similar price points by delivering up to a fivefold performance improvement, as much as a tenfold improvement in security and voice performance, embedded service options, and radically increased slot performance and density while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority of the more than 90 existing expansion modules in use currently for the Cisco 1700, the 2600 Series, and Cisco's 3700 routers.
The Cisco 2800 Series provide a variety of advanced concurrent services at wire data rates up to multiple T1/E1/xDSL connections. 2800 Series routers offer embedded encryption acceleration and on-the-motherboard voice digital-signal-processor expansion slots; intrusion prevention system and firewall functions; optional integrated call handling and voice mail management; high-density interfaces for a wide array of tethered and untethered connectivity requirements; and enough power and slot capacity to handle further system growth requirements and advanced applications.
The Cisco 2800 Series offers a range of common protection features such as a Cisco IOS Software Firewall, an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), IP security VPN, Secure Socket Layer VPN, powerful application inspection and control, SSH Protocol V 2.0, and SNMPv3 in one protected solution. Also, by integrating security features within the router itself, Cisco can enable special smart protection solutions other security appliances cannot, such as network admissions control for virus protection; V3PN for quality-of-service (QoS) support when combining voice, video, and Virtual Private Networks; Dynamic Multipoint VPN; Group Encrypted Transport (GET); Virtual Private Networking; and Easy Virtual Private Networks for enabling more scalable and easier to manage VPN environments.
Companies can utilize the 2800 router to create an integrated IP telephony solution for up to 96 IP telephones, and can securely deploy data, voice, and IP telephony on one platform for their small-to-medium sized branch offices.
The Cisco 2800 Series router incorporates a built-in wireless access point for wireless network access, Wi-Fi Hotspot services for public wireless access, and infrastructure services for portable WLAN telephony and for larger locations.
3800 Series Integrated Services Routers 3800 Series routers are designed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and enterprise satellite locations to provide businesses the highest levels of network agility, performance, and intelligence. The Cisco 3800 Series integrated services routers transparently integrate the latest network engineering, adaptive services, and protected corporate communications into a single resilient system. The Cisco 3800 Series routers ease deployment and management, lower network cost and complexity, and provide investment protection. Cisco 3800 integrated services routers feature embedded security intelligence, fast performance and large memory capacity, and high-capacity interfaces that provide the performance, resilience, and reliability required for building mission-critical protection, IP telephony, high-volume video, system analysis, and Web programs in the most competitive corporate networks. Built for performance, the The Cisco 3800 Series integrated services routers deliver multiple simultaneous services as fast as wired T3/E3 data rates.
The integrated services routing technology of the 3800 Series router is designed to embed and integrate security and voice processing with advanced wireline and wireless support for fast installation of new applications, including application layer functions, intelligent network services, and unified communications. The Cisco 3800 integrated services router supports the bandwidth demands of several Fast Ethernet ports per slot, time-division multiplexing connections, and integrated power sourcing to modules compatible with 802.3af Power over Ethernet, while still supporting the existing selection of interface modules. This ensures ongoing ROI by allowing network scaling or accommodating changes in technology as new services are added. By combining the capabilities of several separate devices into one small unit, the 3800 Series router significantly lowers the expense and complexity of administering remote networks.
7200 VXR Series Routers TheCisco 7200 VXR Series router delivers exceptional performance, flexibility, and expandability in a compact form factor with a broad selection of deployment options. With processing speeds as high as 2 million packets per second, port and service adapters spanning from NxDS0 to 1 GigE, and OC-3 as well as an unparalleled number of high-volume IP services, the 7200 VXR Integrated Services router is the preferred broadband aggregation WAN and MAN edge device for enterprises and ISPs.
The Cisco 7200 VXR Series Integrated Services router features broadband aggregation by supporting up to 16,000 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) sessions per chassis, voice/video/data support via time-division multiplexer-enabled VXR chassis and voice port adapters, direct IP-interconnections, and IPSec virtual private networking scalable to 5,000 tunnels per device.
The 7200 VXR Integrated Services router integrates into a compact platform functions formerly performed by separate appliances. Through this integration, the Cisco 7200 VXR router offers a standalone, affordable platform that accommodates sophisticated network modules plus broadband services aggregation which includes Point-to-Point Protocol, RFC 1483 termination, and Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) tunneling; digital T1/E1 time-division multiplexer trunk termination for and data; multichannel T3/E3 and T1/E1 with built-in CSU/DSU; ATM, Packet over Synchronous Optical Network, and DPT connectivity; ATM IMA (Inverse Multiplexing over ATM) for video; and light-density Layer 2 Ethernet switching.
7600 Series Routers The 7600 Series Integrated Services router benefits from the Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture by using an NEBS-3 box, 256-Gbps crossbar switch fabric, and 30-Mpps switching speed. High availability is provided through logical and physical redundancy as well as Cisco IOS Software functions. In addition, the 7600 router provides a broad set of high-touch network services at optical rates via a variety of OSMs powered by Cisco patented Parallel Express Forwarding technology.
The 7609 provides the option to select a 256-Gbps Switch Fabric Module or a 32-Gbps data bus, which provide switching performance of 30 or 15 million packets per second respectively. When the SFM is installed, the Cisco 7609 Series can also support distributed switching with performance up to 168 Mpps by running the Catalyst 6500 16-port Gbit Ethernet module, which is powered by the DFC Card and the Switch Fabric Module.
The Cisco 7603 router provides exclusively the 32-Gbps bus option and delivers 15 Mpps centralized switching performance. The 7603 Series router does not support distributed switching.
Older Routers Supported by Progent's Network Professionals
Progent's CCIE engineers are experienced with older Cisco routers no longer available from Cisco. Progent can show you how to support these older routers and can also help you to prepare for and implement migrations to newer versions. Popular Cisco routers maintained by Progent include:
Cisco 1700 Routers
1700 Series modular access routers are designed to deliver a cost-effective, integrated router platform for small and medium-sized businesses. 1700 Series offer versatility and manageability to meet demanding e-business needs such as multiservice data/voice/video/fax consolidation, high-speed broadband Internet access, and comprehensive protection solutions.
Cisco 2600 Routers
The Cisco 2600 Series of routers is a line of multiservice access routers for branch offices, offering versatile LAN and WAN setup options, comprehensive security features, and a range of high performance processors.
3700 Series Routers The 3700 routers is a family of modular, multiservice access solutions for mid-size and large-sized offices. With over 70 interface options, the Cisco 3700 Series offers a robust platform for data, voice video, Virtual Private Networks, and multiprotocol data routing.
Ways Progent Can Assist You to Support Cisco Router Products
Progent's CCIE certified engineers can help your business to design, configure, and maintain a converged business network that can streamline processes, lower costs, and accelerate time to productivity. By combining Cisco routers with Catalyst switches support and Cisco Aironet wireless expertise, Progent can dramatically increase the business value of your network infrastructure. Progent can provide onsite and off-site troubleshooting and offers data center support throughout Northern California and select cities nationwide.
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The Cisco Small Business 100 Series of routers provides an affordable Cisco router for data-only traffic in small business customers with up to five users. SB 100 options include Asymmetric DSL, ADSL, or an Ethernet WAN version with a 4-port 10/100 switch. Every SB 100 provides safe access with integrated stateful firewall and support for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based VPNs. In addition, simple configuration tool, Cisco Router and Security Device Manager, permits you to set up the SB 100 and its integrated firewall, and off-site management capabilities in Cisco IOS Software allow easy integration and centralized support.
The Cisco 870 and Cisco 850 Access Routers are entry-level routers that provide protected, simultaneous services over fast connections in small off-site offices, teleworker, and small company sites.
The modular Cisco 1800 family of routers combine data and protection into a single robust system for fast, scalable access to mission-critical business applications. The Cisco 1800 Series architecture has been specifically developed to satisfy the needs of small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), small enterprise branch offices, and ISP-managed services environments for access to concurrent services at high-speed performance. The integrated services systems architecture of the Cisco 1800 Series routers delivers optimum versatility and investment protection.
Targeted at small to midsize organizations and corporate branch offices, the Cisco 2800 Series comprises several platforms: the Cisco 2801, the 2811 router, the Cisco 2821, and the 2851 router. The Cisco 2800 Series provides substantial additional value in comparison to prior generations of Cisco routers at similar price points by delivering up to a fivefold performance improvement, as much as a tenfold improvement in security and voice performance, embedded service options, and radically increased slot performance and density while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority of the more than 90 existing expansion modules in use currently for the Cisco 1700, the 2600 Series, and Cisco's 3700 routers.
3800 Series routers are designed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and enterprise satellite locations to provide businesses the highest levels of network agility, performance, and intelligence. The Cisco 3800 Series integrated services routers transparently integrate the latest network engineering, adaptive services, and protected corporate communications into a single resilient system. The Cisco 3800 Series routers ease deployment and management, lower network cost and complexity, and provide investment protection. Cisco 3800 integrated services routers feature embedded security intelligence, fast performance and large memory capacity, and high-capacity interfaces that provide the performance, resilience, and reliability required for building mission-critical protection, IP telephony, high-volume video, system analysis, and Web programs in the most competitive corporate networks. Built for performance, the The Cisco 3800 Series integrated services routers deliver multiple simultaneous services as fast as wired T3/E3 data rates.
TheCisco 7200 VXR Series router delivers exceptional performance, flexibility, and expandability in a compact form factor with a broad selection of deployment options. With processing speeds as high as 2 million packets per second, port and service adapters spanning from NxDS0 to 1 GigE, and OC-3 as well as an unparalleled number of high-volume IP services, the 7200 VXR Integrated Services router is the preferred broadband aggregation WAN and MAN edge device for enterprises and ISPs.
The 7600 Series Integrated Services router benefits from the Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture by using an NEBS-3 box, 256-Gbps crossbar switch fabric, and 30-Mpps switching speed. High availability is provided through logical and physical redundancy as well as Cisco IOS Software functions. In addition, the 7600 router provides a broad set of high-touch network services at optical rates via a variety of OSMs powered by Cisco patented Parallel Express Forwarding technology.
